The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

SOME OF tne pennsylvania repuDll-
cans are in hurry to begin the cam
paign of 1888. AT the republican con-
vention in Scranton few days ago
Congressman j. A. Scranton and f. p.
Kingsbury were elected delegates to
the national republican convention in
1883 and instructed to vote for James
G.. Blaine for president A resolution
indorsing Mr.. Blaine was adopted
amid much enthusiasm.
SOME republican papers are discuss
ing the probability of the return of the
mugwumps to the republican party,
provided the latter nominate presi-
dental ticket that the "mugs" can
support. No republican objects to the
mugwumps coming back to the party
fold, but they must come uncondtion-
ally. No fatted calf is to be killed, no
special privileges to be granted, no
dictation of party nominations, but the
mugwumps must take their chances
with the regulars"
THE New York Independent has some
very muddled ideas. For example, it
maintains that the prohibition or third
party is due mainly to the blindness of
the republican party, and that its men,
bers can be brought back into the re-
publican fold whenever the republican
party chooses to do so. Now anybody
who knows anything about these third
party men know that they are a set of
| irreconcilabes. 1t is hardly the fair
thing to demand that four millions of
republicans shall submit to the dicta-
ton of three hundred thousand pro-
hibitionists.
A TOWN clerk in a neighboring town,
an acquaintance of ours, has recently
received letter from farmer in Iowa
inquiring if there are farms for sale in
his town. The Iowa writer says it is
his intention to sell out where he is
and come to Vermont, confident that
he can better his condition. 1t has
been predicted by good Judges of farm
lands and farming that the time would
come when an agricultural reaction
would set in from the West to the East,
and it would not be surprising if the
movement had already commenced
81. Adams Messenger.
THE trouble with people generally
is that they can't always have what
they want, and they seldom think
they want what they have; that
they see their own virtues and other
peoples vices with magnifying
glass, and turn the telescope the wrong
end to when they look at their own
vices and other peoples virtues; that
they grumble when things go wrong in
stead of going to work to make things
go right; that they cry over spilled
milk when in all probability the milk
has all the water that it can stand al
ready .-,Somerrule Journal.
GENERAL BUFFERS proposition to
distribute all the national surplus and
reserve--to the amount, as he estimates
it. of about 5000, 900, 000-among the
soldiers of the civil war, and when their
necessities are relieved to give what is
left to the confederate veterans is a
splendid demonstration of generosity
with the public funds which is quite
in keeping with the generals career
For breadth and liberality it reminds
one of that impressive scene which is
said to have occurred in the life of
Daniel Webster when, in an after
dinner speech, he clapped his hand
upon his pocket, asked what the amount
of the national debt was and declared
that rather than have any controversy
about it he would pay it himself
Journal
ACCORDING to the report of the SUI
perintendent of education in this state,
the average daily attendance of pupils
at school is about one-half OF the num-
Der on the rolls. Such state of things
could not exist but for gross and Grim
inal negligence on the part of parents
and guardians. AS rule the large
school is the good school, and sure
way to lower the standard of school
is to keep pupils at home because it is
said they don't learn anything if they
60 A mistaken idea of gain is held
by those who keep children at home to
work when they ought to be in
school. "-NeUport ETpresS Another
reason for the diminished attendance
at public schools is the establishment
of large number of private schools for
the younger class of children, especially
in the villages.
SEVERAL congressman were inter-
viewed in New York recently by a
Tribune reporter: Mr.. Whiting pre-
diets that Massachusetts will give
5000 to 10000 for the republican can
didate for president, and that Mr.
Blaine, if nominated, will get as large
a vote as any one. He says that the
democratic disaffection with the mug
wump federal officials is profound, in
tense and widespread. Congressman
Stewart says that only one republican
federal office-holder remains undis
turbed in Vermont, the postmaster a
Montpelier, and he has been retained
only by reason of a difficulty in select
ing his successor. The democratic ma
chine in the state is run under com
: mand of Bradley B. Smalley, the col
lector at Burlington, with the precision
of small army. Colonel Parsons o
Virginia, talking about Virginia poll
tics, declared that the state was close.
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legged Independent journalism by on,